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Bezig met laden... Animal, Mineral, Radical: Essays on Wildlife, Family, and Fooddoor BK Loren
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. At times this book is a painting, at others a poem, or a song to life and all of it's wonderful variety. It is passion and it is pain because a good life necessarily has both--a yin/yang of mystery that is nevertheless familiar to us all. BK is boldly open and honest about things that have happened in her life, and how they help mold her into the person she is today, which is still a forever changing being. Her lyric voice, even when hard edged, is mesmerizing. I loved this book, and I will be its champion forever--it is definitely on my list of best books I've ever read. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML:"Radical, before it meant a person who advocates strong political reform, meant getting to the root of things, the origin. It comes from the Latin radix, radicis,, meaning radish, a root vegetable."â??BK Loren These meditative essays range in subjects from a transcendental encounter with a pack of coyotes ironically juxtaposed with her neighbor's claim that nature "has gone out of vogue," to Loren's mother's slow yet allâ??encompassing deterioration from Parkinson's, and the unexpected way the Loma Prieta earthquake eroded her depression by offering the author a sense of her small place in a wild and worthwhile world. Loren has an empathetic and gentle approach to the world. In detailing the intricacies of human relationships and consciousnessâ??fear of death and time, cooperation born of clashing viewpoints, tradition's beauty even when destructive, a love of language, a sense of loss amid the fastâ??paced materialistic worldâ??she peels back the film of popular thinking in order to expose herself to the secrets so few Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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